Factors Affecting Students Academic Performance

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Factors Affecting Students Academic Performance

• By Pat Tyler

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Thesis

• Smoking, Alcohol, time spent sleeping and stress
  all have a great effect students academic
  performance.

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Our Survey

• Grade Gender?
• How many hours a week do you engage in physical
  activity?
• How many cigarettes do you smoke in a week?
• How many alcoholic beverages do you consume in a
  week?
• How many hours of sleep do you get per night?
• How do feel when you wake up on a school day?
• How often do you feel stressed?
• What is your overall average?
• Do you enjoy school?

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Grade Gender
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How many hours a week do you engage in physical
activity?

• When we compared students physical activity to
  their academic performance, we found that
  students who had 3 - 5 hours of physical activity
  per week were almost all between 60 and 90.
• We also found that students generally had the
  best academic averages when they got between 5
  and 7 hours of physical activity per week.
• These results however were not forming obvious
  patterns, which brings us to the conclusion that
  physical activity does not have a great impact on
  one's academic performance.

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How many cigarettes do you smoke in a week?

• There are many obvious patterns when comparing
  the number of cigarettes a student smokes in a
  week and their academic performance.
• About half the students who smoke over 45
  cigarettes a week have an average between 50 and
  60.
• However it should also be noted that the other
  half seems to have an average between 70 and 80,
  or between 80 and 90.
• The academic margin of 90 to 100 had the largest
  ratio of non-smokers.
• Generally, the more cigarettes smoked, the lower
  the overall average.

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How many alcoholic beverages do you consume in a
week?

• This was one of the most surprising results of
  our survey.
• It was discovered that students with averages
  between 50 and 60, and students with averages
  between 90 and 100 drink roughly the same amount.
• And students with averages between 60 and 80 seem
  to drink the most of anybody.
• It was also surprising that students with
  averages below 50 drank less than the average.

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How many hours of sleep do you get per night?

• Almost all high school students seem to get
  between 5 and 7, or 7 and 10 hours of sleep per
  night.
• Very few students who get less than 5 hours of
  sleep per night have an average of over 60.
• It should also be noted that almost all students
  who got between 7 and 10 hours of sleep per night
  had an academic average between 70 and 100.

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How often do you feel stressed?

• Much to our surprise, we found that not one
  student with an average between 90 and 100
  considered themselves always stressed".
• For the most part, the stress levels are similar
  in each division. As the population grows so
  does the amount of stress.
• A large portion of those with an average between
  60 and 100 claimed they were "sometimes stressed".

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Do you enjoy school?

• It was no surprise that students who enjoy school
  tend to perform well academically speaking.
• Most students with averages below 60 do not enjoy
  school.
• And roughly 75 of students with an average over
  90 claim the enjoy school .

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Statistics Canada

• The following data is taken from The National
  Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
  transition into adolescence (NLSCY)

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Male Female Achievement

• When comparing the academic performance of males
  and females we found that they were very similar
  and there were no distinct patterns.

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Importance of Doing Well in School
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Importance of Doing Well in School

• After observing this data, it is very clear that
  those who consider school to be very important do
  much better than those who do not consider school
  to be important.
• This was not surprising because of the common
  sense involved.
• We found it interesting that a very small
  fraction of the students surveyed didn't consider
  school to be important.
• It has been proven many times, by Stats Canada on
  this particular occasion, those who feel it
  important to do well in school, end up with the
  best academic performance.
• They are more likely to consider school a large
  part of their life and something that should be
  taken seriously.

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Get Along with Other Kids

• Generally, everyone surveyed got along well with
  their peers at school.
• The students in the very poorly category had
  trouble getting along with other kids. This
  could be connected to why they do not like
  school. We demonstrated earlier that those who
  do not like school generally do not do well.

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Feeling Left Out?

• Just as we had suspected, those who do well and
  very well in school are never left out.
• Responses seem to be almost equally dispersed in
  the poorly and very poorly categories.
• As well, it should be noted that those who had
  average marks were rarely left out most of the
  time.

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Bullying

• It came as a surprise to us that the majority of
  those who did well and very well in school
  claimed they are never bullied.
• We were under the false impression that bullies
  always picked on the smart kids.
• We also thought it was odd that almost all kids
  those who were bullied most of the time did
  poorly or very poorly in school.

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How Far Students Will Go?
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How Far Students Will Go?

• The results of this graph were easily
  predictable.
• The majority of students who do well and very
  well in school hope to complete a University
  degree.
• And those who were unsure of their post-secondary
  school future were doing poorly or very poorly in
  school.
• We also found it interesting that the majority of
  those who hoped to complete High School and or
  College did average in school.

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Students Appreciation for English

• A large majority of students either like english
  a bit or like it a lot.
• And obviously those who "like it alot" tend to
  get the best marks. This can be linked to the
  idea that enjoying school (or a subject in this
  case) will result in higher marks.
• We also found it very peculiar that almost all
  students who hate english have average marks.
• The very odd thing about these results was that
  all students who were doing very poorly "like
  english alot".

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Appreciation of Math

• This question came up with very similar results
  to the english question.
• Just as in the previous question, the very odd
  thing about these results was that all students
  who were doing very poorly "like math alot".

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The End